Today we have identified five gold stocks that have significantly outperformed their peers, increasing an average of 19% over the past week and 29% month-over-month (M/M). For comparison, the VanEck Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ) is up 3% over the past week and M/M.

Torex is a Canada-based gold producer operating in Mexico. The Company's flagship asset, the ELG mine, has a production capacity of 370,000 oz Au/year, and hosts 4.8Moz Au and 8.0Moz Ag, grading 3.0g/t and 4.9 g/t respectively. Torex also owns the nearby Media Luna project, which hosts reserves of 7.4M AuEq oz., grading 4.5 g/t AuEq. On April 6, the Company announced that the blockades of the mine had ended, enabling full production and exploration at its assets.

Northern Empire Resources is developing its Sterling Gold project in Nevada. The asset hosts Inferred reserves of 1.0Moz Au, grading 1.3 g/t Au. The Company aims to conduct exploration and target identification throughout 2018 and 2019, as well as expand its land package on the site. Over the past month, Northern Empire listed on the OTC, and has received several promising drilling results, drilling 70m of 1.8 g/t Au and 43m of 0.8g/t.

Superior Gold is a Canada-based gold producer operating in Australia. The Company operates the Plutonic Gold operations, acquired in October 2016, which produced 80,000 oz. Au in 2017. The Company is also advancing an open-pit mine called the Hermes located ~40km to the SE, which is expected to drive the Company past 100,000 oz. Au this year. On March 26, the Company declared commercial production at Hermes. On April 3, the Company announced that its underground mineral reserve estimate at its Plutonic Gold Operations had tripled.

West Red Lake Gold Mines is a Toronto based-company focused on gold exploration and development in the Red Lake Gold District of Northwestern Ontario, Canada. The Red Lake Gold District is host to some of the richest gold deposits in the world and has produced over 30 million ounces of gold from high-grade zones, including 18 million ounces from the nearby Red Lake Mine and Campbell Mine operated by Goldcorp (TSX:G). West Red Lake Gold Mines has assembled a 3100-hectare property that has a 12-kilometre strike length and three former producing gold mines.

Continued U.S. focused inflationary measures might put pressure on the U.S. dollar, which could send the U.S. dollar gold price higher. Today, we showcase our top 10 junior gold picks for the month of April.

Gold and gold stocks have quietly put on a show since the beginning of 2016 but a quick screen of gold stocks shows a half-dozen currently valued at less than their book value. For some miners, this anemic valuation relative to book makes total sense, while for 2 companies it could represent an intriguing buying opportunity as it may signal an undervaluation of current assets and production potential. Frankly, a little shine is all these 2 gold miners need to be great once again.

I think Barrick Gold is one gold mining company that should outperform all the others in the months ahead. This article looks at the company's most recent earnings report and what this report indicates for investors considering sprinkling a little gold into a portfolio in need of a little sparkle.

Today we have identified three Canadian gold miners with the highest operating margin geometric growth over five years. The market capitalizations of the stocks on our list range from $374.2 million to $26.1 billion.

Today we have identified 5 Canadian gold mining stocks?not only small caps?that have the lowest extraction costs (or cash costs) in the mining industry and, as such, will likely benefit most from a rising gold price environment.

By investing in companies with the leanest operations investors have the best protection in the industry against declining prices, but also benefit from the rising bullion price. This article highlights 5 TSX gold mining companies that have the lowest All-in Sustaining Costs per troy ounce of gold mined and the highest operating margins.

Investing in small cap mining companies can be a risky game. The process of finding and extracting gold takes years, which leaves plenty of room for error, so why not buy a company that has an established cash flow?

One of Benjamin Graham's investment strategies was to purchase shares in companies trading at less than net current asset value, also commonly referred to as working capital. The theory behind such an approach is that you are purchasing the company's most liquid assets at a discount, so if you were to buy the company and liquidate its assets, you would make a profit.

Investing in companies with strong balance sheets is sound investment policy. They carry far less risk because defaulting on any obligations is out of the question for them. Furthermore, the less debt a company has, the more room they have to raise debt in the future, which can be beneficial to current shareholders as it is a non-dilutive financing option. The 4 Canadian gold juniors on our list have current ratios over 2 and carry no debt.